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he's now a visiting professor at the new school here in new york city where he's teaching a special course on the financial crash. welcome, richard wolff. >> thank you, bill. >> last night i watched for the second time the popular lecture that is on this dvd, "capitalism hits the fan." tell us why you say capitalism has hit the fan. >> well, the classic defense of capitalism as a system for much of its history has been, okay, it has this or that flaw. but it "delivers the goods." >> yeah, for most everybody. >> right. >> that was the argument. >> and so you may not get the most, but it'll trickle down to you, all the different ways. >> the yachts will rise. >> that's right. the ocean will lift all the boats. the reality is that for at least 30 years now, that isn't true. for the majority of people, capitalism is not delivering the goods. it is delivering, arguably, the bads. and so we have this disparity getting wider and wider between those for whom capitalism continues to deliver the goods by all means, but a growing majority in this society which isn't getting the benefit, is in fact, f
he's now a visiting professor at the new school here in new york city where he's teaching a special course on the financial crash. welcome, richard wolff. >> thank you, bill. >> last night i watched for the second time the popular lecture that is on this dvd, "capitalism hits the fan." tell us why you say capitalism has hit the fan. >> well, the classic defense of capitalism as a system for much of its history has been, okay, it has this or that flaw. but it...
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the people of new york insist on a comprehensive health impact assessment. we will not settle for anything less. we are going to open this process up because secrecy cannot protect public health. >> if you want to have a conversation -- >> i have tried to have a conversation with you. you don't answer any letters. so i am using my voice in front of the people of new york to say we are not going to stand -- >> please leave. >> we are not going to stand for a secret health study. >> please leave. >> it is my right as a new yorker to be here. >> it will also be your right to be arrested. >> i wasn't -- i didn't start off angry. i had important questions that i wanted to ask. and the frustration that many of us do feel in the scientific community in new york, especially the public health community, is the many questions that we have raised about the public health risk of fracking have gone unanswered. >> but here's what the industry says, the american natural gas alliance -- "fracking wells have a smaller surface footprint, therefore requiring half as many wells
the people of new york insist on a comprehensive health impact assessment. we will not settle for anything less. we are going to open this process up because secrecy cannot protect public health. >> if you want to have a conversation -- >> i have tried to have a conversation with you. you don't answer any letters. so i am using my voice in front of the people of new york to say we are not going to stand -- >> please leave. >> we are not going to stand for a secret health...
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>> funding is provided by carnegie corporation of new york. celebrating 100 years of philanthropy and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. with support from the partridge foundation. john and polly guth charitable fund. the herb albert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote charity. and committed to building a more just and peaceful world. more information at mackfound.org. and betsy and jesse think foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischmann. and by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. in all the hullabaloo over the supreme court's decision on health care, another of its rulings quickly fell off the public radar. before deciding the fate of the affordable care act, the court announced it would not reconsider citizens united. that's the odious 5-4 decision two years ago that opened our elections to unlimited contributions. within minutes of that announcement, right
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quote, "earlier today, at the federal courthouse in brooklyn, new york, u.s. district judge sterling johnson, jr. accepted a guilty plea by american biotechnology giant amgen inc. for illegally introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce. the plea is part of a global settlement with the united states in which amgen agreed to pay $762 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from its sale and promotion of certain drugs. the settlement represents the single largest criminal and civil false claims act settlement involving a biotechnology company in u.s. history." how does a company that just pleaded guilty to criminal charges in federal court and is slapped with three quarters of a billion dollars in fines even allowed a place in the negotiations in the senate? >> yeah, you would think they would be shunned. and you would think that they would have absolutely no opportunity to come in and get the fine paid by the taxpayer. but the way it works is that they've established relationships with those 74 lobbyists. they've established relation
quote, "earlier today, at the federal courthouse in brooklyn, new york, u.s. district judge sterling johnson, jr. accepted a guilty plea by american biotechnology giant amgen inc. for illegally introducing a misbranded drug into interstate commerce. the plea is part of a global settlement with the united states in which amgen agreed to pay $762 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from its sale and promotion of certain drugs. the settlement represents the single largest...
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and then i said, "you know, really, i've got to get back to new york. i got to go." and they said, "wait, wait, wait." and this guy took me down, down and down and down into the bowels of the library, down a long hall, down another long hall, all the way to what felt like the back of the building, in a room. there were these big work tables with pool lights over them, you know. and they were all shut off except one at the back of the back of the room. and there was a guy over the table. "did you close it up yet?" said the man i was with. and the man in the room said, "no, no, not yet, but i'm about to." and he said, "well, wait, wait. wait just a second. i want to show this --" "i don't know, is that authorized?" "don't worry about it, it'll be okay." and then he went like this, "hold out your hands. these are the contents of lincoln's pockets on the night he was shot." >> what were they? >> two pairs of glasses, i think. one of them was a gift from billy herndon, his law partner. his wallet. a watch fob. some studs, maybe. >> pocket knife? >> a pocket knife, confede
and then i said, "you know, really, i've got to get back to new york. i got to go." and they said, "wait, wait, wait." and this guy took me down, down and down and down into the bowels of the library, down a long hall, down another long hall, all the way to what felt like the back of the building, in a room. there were these big work tables with pool lights over them, you know. and they were all shut off except one at the back of the back of the room. and there was a guy...
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. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gum the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. it's the weekend after, and barack obama is back in the white house, democrats are back in control of the se
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york and new jersey in '74. that was far more honest to the experience than anything i could have written realistically. >> at the age of six, you came? >> yeah, yeah. yeah, and for a young mind, mean, it's an extraordinary leap. it's an extraordinary leap. and i think science fiction, i think fantasy, i think the genres do a wonderful job of describing all parts of, many parts of our society that realism doesn't do a great job of describing. >> didn't you say somewhere that "starwar" the "star wars ories, yououldt ha a better framework f dratic alys or storytelling than "star wars"? ♪ >> i love to teach those as structures. they're, like, great, great structures for sort of teaching my students how drama can work, especially how drama can work in a film. >> how so? >> well, i mean, first, you think about the three movies. again, the first, the original three movies. and when we think about the way that they're organized together. and, you know, there's always in any movie or in every book, not always, but tra
york and new jersey in '74. that was far more honest to the experience than anything i could have written realistically. >> at the age of six, you came? >> yeah, yeah. yeah, and for a young mind, mean, it's an extraordinary leap. it's an extraordinary leap. and i think science fiction, i think fantasy, i think the genres do a wonderful job of describing all parts of, many parts of our society that realism doesn't do a great job of describing. >> didn't you say somewhere that...
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they ask this question, it hit the front page of the new york times. again, there was a letter from a group of senators, republican senators in congress to the commissioner of the i.r.s. saying, "why are you asking these questions? why are you threatening the donors to (c) (4)'s?" i don't know if they were donors to liberal groups or conservative groups, but it was seen as the i.r.s. trying to crack down on the amount of money going to (c) (4)'s. the commissioner said, "i give up. we promise we won't ask any more questions of any donors about gift tax. we won't enforce our current policy, and we won't do a thing until congress clarifies this area of law and tells us what to do." >> good luck. >> well, and that's an example of how politically sensitive this has become. i mean, the i.r.s. does not want to be in the middle of this fight. they trying to keep their heads down. >> we know now that much of this corporate spending is coming from so-called nonprofits. in particular, trade associations. and trade associations, for some reason, can hide all their
they ask this question, it hit the front page of the new york times. again, there was a letter from a group of senators, republican senators in congress to the commissioner of the i.r.s. saying, "why are you asking these questions? why are you threatening the donors to (c) (4)'s?" i don't know if they were donors to liberal groups or conservative groups, but it was seen as the i.r.s. trying to crack down on the amount of money going to (c) (4)'s. the commissioner said, "i give...
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i mean, we had a crisis in new york the last two weeks. we couldn't get gasoline for the indispensable vehicles that get us to work, get us to the supermarket, get us to our sick friends or neighbors. i mean, the point i'm trying to make is we are all the fossil fuel industry, are we not? naomi klein: you know, we often hear that. we often hear that we're all equally responsible for climate change. and that it's just the rules of supply and demand. >> i have two cars. i keep them filled with gasoline. >> i think the question is if there was a fantastic public transit system that really made it easy for you to get to where you wanted to go, would you drive less? i don't know about you, but i certainly would. >> i mean, i use the subways all of the time. >> if it was possible to recharge an electric vehicle and if it was as easy to fill up your car with gasoline, if that electricity came from solar and wind, would you, insist? no, i want to fill my car with dirty energy. no, i don't think you would. >> we are willing to make changes, you kno
i mean, we had a crisis in new york the last two weeks. we couldn't get gasoline for the indispensable vehicles that get us to work, get us to the supermarket, get us to our sick friends or neighbors. i mean, the point i'm trying to make is we are all the fossil fuel industry, are we not? naomi klein: you know, we often hear that. we often hear that we're all equally responsible for climate change. and that it's just the rules of supply and demand. >> i have two cars. i keep them filled...
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i was speaking to a republican here in new york, a friend of mine. and, you know, i asked him, do you think it's an accident that, what, 80% of republicans are white males? and he did. i mean, he -- >> coincidence, huh? >> yes. he couldn't even imagine that he's part of a tribe. so, as a member of a tribe, i think i have a more conscious relationship with black and white thinking. and i used to be quite a black and white thinker in public life and private life until 9/11, you know? and the end game of tribalism is flying planes into building. that's the end game. so, since then, i have tried, and i fail often, but i have tried to live in the in between. to be conscious what did fitzgerald say? the sign of a superior mind is the ability to hold two different ideas. keats called it negative capability. so, i have tried to be in that and fail often, but i try. >> that's what i get from your poems. you even see yo yo ma's cello differently from the rest of us. that's one of my favorites. would you read it? >> oh, yes -- >> here it is. >> and this poem is
i was speaking to a republican here in new york, a friend of mine. and, you know, i asked him, do you think it's an accident that, what, 80% of republicans are white males? and he did. i mean, he -- >> coincidence, huh? >> yes. he couldn't even imagine that he's part of a tribe. so, as a member of a tribe, i think i have a more conscious relationship with black and white thinking. and i used to be quite a black and white thinker in public life and private life until 9/11, you know?...
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anthony lewis was a longtime reporter and columnist at the "new york times." i knew him during my years in washington when he made his reputation as our foremost interpreter of the supreme court and the impact of its decisions on civil rights and liberties. as one legal scholar noted, lewis had "an incredible talent in making the law not only intelligible but also in making it compelling." this was tony lewis' masterpiece, "gideon's trumpet" an account of the supreme court's gideon v. wainwright ruling in 1963 that established the constitutional right of criminal defendants to an attorney, even if they had no money to pay for one. the book has never been out of print, its' story the subject of this cbs reports documentary. >> his name is clarence earl gideon. he argued there could be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has. he argued there should not be one kind of justice for the rich, another for the poor. gideon blew one note on his trumpet. he blew it over and over -- a man cannot get a fair trial without a
anthony lewis was a longtime reporter and columnist at the "new york times." i knew him during my years in washington when he made his reputation as our foremost interpreter of the supreme court and the impact of its decisions on civil rights and liberties. as one legal scholar noted, lewis had "an incredible talent in making the law not only intelligible but also in making it compelling." this was tony lewis' masterpiece, "gideon's trumpet" an account of the...
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york model, the new york city model working? do you think it's working effectively? >> well, it's completely changing the way that candidates run for election. it's opened up the opportunity for different sorts of folks to run for election. and it means that those who are running and succeeding in the system are getting their -- are getting funded in their campaigns from small -- principally from small contributors rather than big contributors. i think that means that you have the opportunity to have a degree of trust in your government in new york city that you don't have elsewhere in the country. >> i think it's been profoundly successful, right. there are always some problems with thiges and no system -- this is not some, you know, magic feather that is going to make democracy work, in all, you know, we still need good candidates with good ideas. you need organizations keeping them honest. but if you can reduce this particular problem which you led off with, the enormous power that private money has you'll get better outcomes
york model, the new york city model working? do you think it's working effectively? >> well, it's completely changing the way that candidates run for election. it's opened up the opportunity for different sorts of folks to run for election. and it means that those who are running and succeeding in the system are getting their -- are getting funded in their campaigns from small -- principally from small contributors rather than big contributors. i think that means that you have the...
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they got the film back to new york very quickly. and abc was the first to break the news by interrupting the movie of the week, which again, in an amazing coincidence was judgment at nuremburg, the 1961 film about the nazi war trials. and people were stunned. they just watched the footage. there was no narration. and they -- was this america? i mean, they couldn't believe it. they dropped everything to join king's campaign. others besieged lyndon johnson in the white house, sat in, a group of them in the white house. >> what do these unanticipated, unexpected, unintended consequences of the convergence of such forces, what do they tell you about history, how it gets made? >> that it's primarily an accident. you know, sometimes we see this story as one of martin luther king and lyndon johnson, they get together and we have this voting rights act. but, of course, it's a much larger story. and it's a perfect example of the value of collective change to bring about progress in this country, people getting together and being committed an
they got the film back to new york very quickly. and abc was the first to break the news by interrupting the movie of the week, which again, in an amazing coincidence was judgment at nuremburg, the 1961 film about the nazi war trials. and people were stunned. they just watched the footage. there was no narration. and they -- was this america? i mean, they couldn't believe it. they dropped everything to join king's campaign. others besieged lyndon johnson in the white house, sat in, a group of...
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>> there's nothing hard about it in new york city, obviously. what is hard about it, i can really answer that question, because the "dallas morning news" reprinted the piece i wrote about atheism, which mentioned ingersoll's views that atheism and agnosticism were the same. but this piece i wrote was reprinted in full in the "dallas morning news" the week after it ran at "the times." my author website nearly crashed with e-mails from people of all ages from all over texas saying how thrilled they were to read this piece talking about what their lives were like in small towns in texas. the oldest person who wrote me a letter was an 85-year-old african-american man from amarillo who talked to me not only about his experiences as an atheist in texas, but as an atheist in the african-american community in texas. in other words, groups in which african-americans are among the most religious people in the country. and while it doesn't translate into economic conservatism, many of them are very religiously conservative. and he said how wonderful it was
>> there's nothing hard about it in new york city, obviously. what is hard about it, i can really answer that question, because the "dallas morning news" reprinted the piece i wrote about atheism, which mentioned ingersoll's views that atheism and agnosticism were the same. but this piece i wrote was reprinted in full in the "dallas morning news" the week after it ran at "the times." my author website nearly crashed with e-mails from people of all ages from...
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they could take out an ad in the "new york times" on something. before the ceos and executives, as you say, could put their own money into campaigns. they could spend to the heavens of their own money. and they could contribute directly to candidates. but the one thing that couldn't happen was the ceos could not take money directly out of the treasury and funnel it into campaigns, exxonmobil for example. i mean, in 2008, exxonmobil had a political action committee.on given directly by executives. people wrote checks for it. and they raised about a $1 million, which is not chump change. and they were able to spread it around. but if exxonmobil had been able to take money directly out of the corporate treasury, their profits in that year were $45 billion. if they had taken a modest 10% of their profits to spend in politics, it would have been more than the obama campaign, the mccain campaign, the dnc, and the rnc, and every congressional campaign in the country. one corporation in the fortune 500. >> what jamie is describing is the reason we have un
they could take out an ad in the "new york times" on something. before the ceos and executives, as you say, could put their own money into campaigns. they could spend to the heavens of their own money. and they could contribute directly to candidates. but the one thing that couldn't happen was the ceos could not take money directly out of the treasury and funnel it into campaigns, exxonmobil for example. i mean, in 2008, exxonmobil had a political action committee.on given directly by...